Upgrade Me: Our Amazing Journey to Human 2.0
Do you remember the classic TV show, MAN FROM ATLANTIS?
It featured an actor with webbed fingers and toes, able to swim deep into the ocean to solve crimes. Our recollection is that he had gills and could breath underwater like Aquaman, but there’s been a lot of alcohol in our system since then so we may be confusing two different characters.
But the webbed fingers and toes? Those were real.
Do you know how much bandwidth your cell phone provider gives you on your mobile phone contract?
We know – why does it matter how much our providers charge us for bandwidth? The Internet is free, right?
Yeah… not so much.
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Now you really can give someone the FLYING F*CK that they deserve.
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So Web Watch is in the process of packing up some of our video game systems and putting them away. The PS2 and Xbox Classic are no longer needed, and don’t even get us started on the TurboGrafx or Sega Genesis that were also taking up precious shelf space.
We’ll leave the Wii and PS3 where they are as we still use those regularly, as we anxiously await the long-rumored Xbox 720 to come out to replace the Xbox 360.
So what does all this mean? We’re not the only ones with older gaming systems still hanging around and being used.
But what are they being used for? It’s not always what you think.
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By now, you probably have heard about CARRIER IQ, that software that many cell phone manufacturers and service providers had installed on all sorts of cellphones in order to track how well their networks were performing.
The issue, if you didn’t know, is that CARRIER IQ wasn’t a very well-designed application and was recording a lot of each user’s phone actions without that person’s knowledge. Now, Congress has gotten involved and it’s turned into a big ugly mess.
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TextAppeal – For Guys! – The Ultimate Texting Guide
A quick survey: how many of you regularly send texts while driving or otherwise sitting behind the wheel of your car?
Yeah, we thought so.
Texting while driving has increased 50% over 2011. 20% of all drivers say that they’ve done this, despite laws and other regulations in place that make it an offense to do so.
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So the other day, Web Watch was flipping through one of our myriad of magazine subscriptions when one of those annoying response card things fell into our lap.
But before we could toss it away as we do all the others, we noticed there was something different about it. This one had gift card attached to it.
A $500 gift card.
“Whoa,” we said. What did we do to deserve this, other than subscribe to a magazine or two?
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How To Take Better Pictures Like A Pro
Whenever Web Watch goes on a trip – say to Las Vegas, Walt Disney World, San Francisco… wherever – we are completely dumbfounded by all the tourists and families who are trying to get “that perfect shot”.
They group their people together on one side of the walkway, then expect the entire crowd to stay out of the way while you compose the shot.
Have you ever been trying to get from Point A to Point B at any of these touristy spots without having to constantly stop to be courteous to these photo hounds? We’ve gotten to the point where we say, “Screw it – they’re using a digital camera or their phone, they can take another shot” and we walk right through the photo opp. We’ve got place to be, folks – so let us move on and get out of your way.
